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Buddy's a true working-class hero whose mean-spirited, bullying father is a union shop steward at a big chemical plant in Newark, and he wants Buddy to work there, too.

Set in the spring, summer and fall of 1952, it's an entertaining and oft-hilarious coming-of-age tale told by an engaging 19-year-old New Jersey gas-station mechanic named Buddy Palumbo, whom several reviewers have likened to Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye. It's also been used in high school and college-level English classes and is on the recommended reading lists at many libraries and book clubs. The print edition of The Last Open Road was originally self-published in 1994 after being turned down by major fiction publishers, but earned rave reviews in both the mainstream and motoring press and has become a genuine cult classic on the motorsports and collector-car scenes. The Last Open Road audio book won multiple awards as “The Best Motoring Book of the Year,” and several reviewers-including non-gearheads-have called it the most entertaining and unique audio book ever.

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Levy's The Last Open Road features professional Hollywood voice actors in the major roles, amazing and authentic sound effects, period music and a cast of over 40 players, including many famous motorsports personalities. You can support Triple R by becoming a subscriber here.It's like no audio book you've ever listened to! Re-imagined by the author as a 1950's-style radio play, the audio presentation of B.S. Eventually I just took it all for granted, but now I realise Triple RRR changed me, in a good way.Īt Wide Open Road we’ve been supporting the radiothon for many years and even though I’m living up in Northern NSW I still consider triple R to be my local radio station and dial it in when I’m driving around. Then at the end of the week, on a Friday afternoon entered The Ghost, broadcasting from his cave with all the eclectic sounds from the edge of independent music. I still don’t know what happened to it, pretty confident my Mum through it out and probably fair enough considering what it represented. There was the Hedgeburners T-Shirt, not the band but celebrating the actual burning of hedges in the wealthy Eastern suburbs of Melbourne in the 90’s. Leaping Larry on Danger Low Brow, thinking about it now and I recognise the same feelings, a mix of excitement and danger and new worlds coming into focus. The Punters, The Tote, The Club, The Sarah Sands, The Espy, The Empress, The Corner, many of them gone or too different to recognise now but triple R remains. Hearing about live shows and the clubs and pubs through Fitzroy, Collingwood, St Kilda and eventually Brunswick that would before too long become my locals.

Or I’d record off the radio, stop start the record button and then play it back to create a mashup. Burroughs style of cut ups by facing two tape decks together, playing one and randomly recording on the other. It’s where I was first introduced to not just independent music but a whole world of beautiful madness.Īt 16 I first heard all about The Beat Generation on Triple R, inspired I tried to emulate William S. Wide Open Road is very proud to be a Triple R sponsor, and we encourage anyone with the means to to sign up too! In celebration of Radiothon, we spoke to a few friends about what Triple R and community radio means to them.įirst up, owner of Wide Open Road, Jono, shared his experience growing up with Triple R radio.Īs a teenager and in my early 20’s I’d listen to Triple R religiously. Triple R’s annual Radiothon is currently underway which means they’re asking listeners to subscribe to their favourite shows to help fund their ongoing running costs and keep them on air.

It’s completely independent and run mostly by volunteers, which means hosts have complete freedom to play whatever they choose, unlike major, privately owner radio stations. The station has been running since 1976 and has helped shape Melbourne’s cultural and musical landscape. Brunswick has long been known as the creative heart of Melbourne, and so it’s no surprise it’s also the home of Triple R - a community radio station that gives air time to local music, as well as conversations about art, cinema, politics and more.

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